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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Article Review: Legal and Ethical Implications of Refusing to Counsel Homosexual Clients by Hermann and Herlihy

I have reviewed the article by Hermann and Herlihy (2006), and
imagine that myself supervising a new counselor. The counselor says that she
does not want to work with a client who has just stated he wants to come out to
his family. She has stated that she has religious concerns about working with
the client ethically.

From a supervisor's role, this is how I would respond to the
counselor using ethical and legal guidelines? Use legal guidelines specific to
your state or use the court's mandate for Mississippi, which was reviewed in
this article.

The principle of beneficence is embodied in counselors’
commitment to keeping client welfare first and foremost (Hermann & Herlihy
2006).

The text clearly depicts that our obligation is the welfare
of our clients first and foremost.Our
ethical values or beliefs should not impede our decision of denying or sway our
counseling towards the clients based on our personal principles or morals.This will not only lead to the danger of our
client’s safety or welfare but lawsuits and termination of our job as
counselors.

To avoid finding themselves in situations like Bruff’s,
these counselors might choose to work in settings that are compatible with
their values and advertise these values to potential consumers of counseling
services. If it is not possible to work in a compatible setting, these
counselors have an ethical duty to avoid harm to clients by ensuring that
counselors’ informed consent procedures provide potential clients with adequate
information about the counselors’ values (Hermann & Herlihy 2006).

The text is very direct of saying that counseling should not
be our profession if we intend to classify our clients based on our moral
principles or for example our belief that lesbian is wrong and should not be
given the proper counseling.To the
contrary, the more we should counsel our clients and our goal should be to
treat everyone with dignity and respect whatever belief system or values they
have.

As the supervisor, my role will be to coach everyone about
equal handling of client’s issues and never that sexual orientation will be
considered unless it is the issue that the client wants counseling on.My priority is to empower my counselors so
that they can empower the clients who need to overcome some of the pervasive
coercion of the society.To be bias with
the client is a double jeopardy and the unkindest attitude that a counselor can
do to the client.

Applying social empowerment strategies when working with
such clientele is one strategy that may prove successful in facilitating the
reclamation of individual and community power, self-advocacy, and the ability
to rise above those factors inhibiting a person's effort to control her or his
life. Overcoming some of the more pervasive societal-level forms of oppression
(e.g., heterosexism) poses, perhaps, a more daunting challenge for the lesbian
and gay male community but may become more of a realistic possibility when empowerment
and demarginalization occurs at the level of the individual (Savage, Harley and
Nowak, 2005).

Yes, it is a double jeopardy like
I mentioned from my discussion and like you’ve said: imagine the amount of
damage done when the client feels rejected by the one person they felt would be
impartial and supportive of them. That is why many of the gay community would
rather go to a gay counselor or someone they know for sure values their
values.Community, or collective,
empowerment is one way for lesbians and gay males to support and help each
other deal with distress politically as a group (R. E. Perkins, 1996).

Good
evening from USS Nimitz. As
graduate students, we learn to open our minds to the difficulties and unkind
treatment of societies especially to minorities like the lesbian
community.This field is the beginning
of preventing another Bruff issue in the field of counseling.

Those
interventions aimed at counselors themselves or the type of activities used
with gay and lesbiancareercounseling clients must either be learned during
graduate school education or through continuing professional development at
conferences or workshops. Interventions directed at institutions or programs
and at social/community action have implications for school-based career
education programs, career planning texts used in colleges and universities,
and occupational information (Pope, et. al., 2004)

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